Musumba

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Musumba

| other_name = Musumbu{{Cite web|title=Musumba, Lualaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo|url=https://www.mindat.org/feature-207889.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-24|website=Mindat.org|archive-date=2021-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725005933/https://www.mindat.org/feature-207889.html}}

| settlement_type = City

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Democratic Republic of the Congo

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Lualaba

| coordinates = {{Coord|8|21|41|S|22|38|32|E}}

}}

Musumba is a city in Lualaba Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo.{{Cite web|title=Musumba, Lualaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo|url=https://www.mindat.org/feature-207889.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-24|website=Mindat.org|archive-date=2021-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725005934/https://www.mindat.org/feature-207889.html}} It is the capital of the Kingdom of Lunda.{{Cite book|last=Gondola|first=Ch. Didier|title=The History of Congo|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=2002|isbn=9780313316968|pages=|chapter=}}{{Rp|39}}{{Cite journal|last=Van Damme|first=Patrick|date=2017|title=Les Lunda - The Lunda République Démocratique du Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo|url=|journal=Afrika Focus|volume=30|issue=1|pages=170–172|id={{ProQuest|1951871993}}|via=ProQuest}} The practices of the Lunda kingdom still persist in Musumba.

As the Lunda Empire expanded in the 1730s and 1740s and into the 1750s large amounts of people from other areas were brought to Musumba.John K. Thornton. History of West Central Afeica to 1850 p. 227

Musumba was the birthplace of Moïse Tshombe, a Congolese businessman and politician.{{Rp|193}}{{Cite book|last=Sloan|first=Ruth|url=|title=Education|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=1961|isbn=978-1-5128-1706-5|editor-last=Huus|editor-first=Helen|pages=137|language=en|chapter=Potential for Leadership in Africa Today|doi=10.9783/9781512817065-012|chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.9783/9781512817065-012/html|access-date=2021-07-25|archive-date=2021-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725005950/https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.9783/9781512817065-012/html|url-status=live}}